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You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

— David Garrett

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it…

— Rufus Wainwright

I have an issue with classical music.

— David Baddiel

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's…

— Andrew Bird

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the…

— Glenn Danzig

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

— Gustavo Dudamel

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

— Questlove

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

— Anonymous

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to…

— Leon Russell